This weekend was a bit of a wakeup call for me. I tend to eat a little differently on the weekends, which is when I would normally eat my weekly points and call it all good. Well, no weekly points when counting calories! So I did a lot of exercising to make up for my eating.
For breakfast this morning, I ate an egg with 1/2 serving of oatmeal and strawberries and skim milk.
I needed to make sure I got in a workout this morning because I ended up going over my calories a bit last night. I walked on the treadmill for 2.25 miles in 45:30. I burned 285 calories.
Exercise makes more sense to me when I see the numbers. But does exercising really burn off the calories I eat? I use a HR monitor to track how many calories I burn, so I think that should be pretty accurate. Basically, my 2.25 mile walk burned off breakfast, if that’s the case!
My weight was up this morning, so I’m hoping it’s sodium and it will be off by WI on Wednesday. I want to see those low numbers I was seeing at the end of last week!!
While working, I sipped on coffee with FF vanilla creamer.
It was a beautiful and sunshiny morning. That makes me happy!
I think working out made me hungry! My stomach was grumbling by my first break. I ate 1/2 serving of pistachios and a banana.
So looking at various calorie tracking programs, it seems that none of them have weigh in days. So the weeks are all off and I get confused. So I was thinking, maybe I should do away with the weekly official WI day and make it more of a monthly official weigh in. Like the 1st of the month or something. I’d enter my weight each day on the tracker, but look for progress on the once a month weights to see if I’m really making progress. What do you think? How do you schedule your official weigh in days?
I’m thinking this way I wouldn’t be “playing the system” so much. You know, those last couple of days before WI where you eat extra well to make up for any bad choices you may have made…maybe if I counted every single day’s weight, I’d be more focused on eating well every day to see that number go down more often since every day would really be counting instead of once a week.
Since I’m changing things up around here, why not change up more?! 
And this is just a test…I haven’t finalized what I’m doing yet, but I’ve been thinking things over and hubby and I talked some stuff over and I think I have a new plan in place! 
For lunch, I ate a salad with lettuce, tomato, carrots, mushrooms, avocado, chicken and light Caesar dressing.
Yummy!
And I wasn’t even hungry for a snack in the afternoon.
For supper, I made an Asian sesame chicken salad with perfect roasted potatoes.
Yum! A delicious and filling supper!
And what does this mean on the package of chicken breasts…young chickens! Not very appetizing to me!
They should just put…”old chickens who lived a full and happy life”. lol
I finished it up with FF/SF vanilla yogurt and light whipped topping.
It is probably the best low calorie dessert out there.
After supper, I hopped on the stationary bike to finish making up for the extra calories I ate yesterday. I biked 11 miles in 45 minutes and burned 293 calories.
I am happy with today. I feel like I ate healthy foods, drank lots of water, exercised and best of all—I’m satisfied! I was a little under where I want to be protein wise though. But that’s just one day. Most days I meet that goal.
Here’s how I did:
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That’s slightly inaccurate because I had to make up for the extra calories last night—so actually, I have 305 calories I could eat today if I want to. I’m back in the black!
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